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The winners of the inaugural Hedgeweek & Private Equity Wire European Credit Awards, which recognise excellence among private equity fund managers and service providers in Europe across a wide range of categories, have been announced.
Rainier Partners, a Seattle-based, lower-middle-market private equity firm, has appointed Dave Shephard as Director of Portfolio Operations in an effort to expand the firm’s ability to accelerate value and growth across the portfolio.
Ethos Capital has appointed Hayley Kirman as a vice president. Kirman will be involved in a range of investment functions, including due diligence, execution, and portfolio management.
Kirman joins Ethos from ABRY Partners (ABRY) where she focused on investments in the financial services, software, and business services sectors, and collaborated on multiple transactions with senior members of Ethos investment team also previously at ABRY including Chris Ritchie, who joined Ethos as a Partner in January of this year, followed by Scott Stevens who joined in March as a Principal.
Kirman has served on the board of directors of several
Crestbridge has appointed David Bridger as head of its Southampton office, as the business continues to focus on enhancing its operational capabilities to deliver first-class service to global asset managers and investors.
In his new role, Bridger will be responsible for overseeing and enhancing the operational expertise provided through the business’s expanding office in Southampton, asserting its position as Crestbridge’s central hub for specialist fund accounting, processes, and development.
Crestbridge launched its office in Southampton in December last year, its second in the UK, complementing its existing London presence and reinforcing its commitment to investing in the UK post-Brexit. The
Copper Street Capital, a private equity investor focused on the European financial services sector, has divested its minority stake in Italian mobile payments service, Satispay.
The mobile payment service, launched in 2015, simplifies every-day payments for consumers and cuts transaction fees for retailers, helping them transition to mobile payments.
Copper Street invested in Satispay in 2018 and since then, the company has achieved an exceptional growth, reaching 3,000,000 consumers and 200,000 merchants, representing an increase of 800% and 450% respectively since the investment. It is currently Italy’s largest mobile payments provider and is expanding across Europe, with offices in
Concert Golf Partners (Concert Golf or CGP) has received a strategic investment from Centroid Investment Partners (Centroid), a Seoul-based private equity firm and the owner of TaylorMade Golf Company (TaylorMade).
Centroid joins Clearlake Capital Group (Clearlake) and management as investors in Concert Golf, a boutique owner-operator of private golf and country clubs focused on providing premium lifestyle offerings and amenities for its members.
Financial terms of the transaction have not disclosed.
Clearlake originally invested in Concert Golf in partnership with the founding management team in April 2022. Since Clearlake’s investment, Concert Golf has welcomed several new private clubs to
Balderton Capital has appointed Rachel Bremer as Chief Marketing and Communications Officer. Bremer will be responsible for driving Balderton’s own marketing and communications efforts, and providing support and advice for the 100-plus active companies within its portfolio.
This comes as the firm continues to build out its team and portfolio support services, which includes the recent appointment of Elodie Broad as Head of Impact.
Bremer was previously a Partner at global advisory firm, Milltown Partners, where she worked with leading global technology companies and high-growth startups, supporting strategic communications and tech policy as they navigate complex and quickly changing external
Prescott’s, a leading provider of refurbishment, maintenance, repair and service work for surgical microscopes utilised in hospital operating rooms and ambulatory surgery centres and a portfolio company of Atlantic Street Capital (ASC), has expanded into the medical and laboratory steriliser and washer specialty service and support sector with the acquisition of Preventive Maintenance Medical (PMM).
Founded in 1997, PMM performs preventative maintenance, service, installations, refurbishments and parts and equipment sales, for surgical suite and laboratory sterilisers and washers. Additionally, PMM has expertise facilitating bulk rebuild projects for large research facilities faced with ageing equipment needs.
PMM’s comprehensive service offering is
Affinity, a relationship intelligence platform for dealmakers, has expanded the Affinity Data offering with insights on over 10 million founders, executives, and experts, including data points like industry, job function, seniority, education, job titles, and years of experience.
This new data provides deeper insight into the people in a dealmaker’s network to connect the research and dealmaking process in one centralised system: Affinity CRM. With Affinity Data dealmakers can quickly evaluate people in their network to screen deals or identify potential investments, find experts to support due diligence or portfolio companies, and make decisions faster.
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While allocations to alternative investments have long been a staple of endowment and pension portfolios, they have yet to penetrate the defined contribution (DC) market. However, the return profiles and unique diversification of illiquid alternatives may offer an attractive investment opportunity for DC plan participants, according to the latest Cerulli Edge – US Retirement Edition.
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